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THE 



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GEORGE WM. GOKDON. 



THE SLAVE TP^ADE AT RIO DE JANEIRO— SEIZURE OF SLAVE 
VES-ELS— CONVICTION OF SLAVE DEALERS, 



PERSONAL LIBERATION OF SLA YES, &C, 



:E>P?,.A.CTICE J^C3-.A.IISrST TX^ZEOiR,"^- 



LOYERS OF FUEEDOM, 

ID! READ!! HEAD!!! 

AND VOTE FOR THE BEST MAN. 



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BOSTON : 

PUBLISHED AT THE AMERICAN IIEAD-QUAUTEES. 



1856. 
Printed by J. E. Farwell & Co., 32 Gangress Strael. 






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The State Executive Committee of the National American Party, in Mas* 
sachusetts, submit the following brief memoir of George Wm. Gordon, Esq , 
the candidate of the party for the office of Governor of this ©ommonwealth. 
It may be relied on as authentic, it having been compiled from official docu- 
ments and other reliable evidence, under the supervision of the members of 
the Committee. 

Americrm Head- Quarters, 100 Washington Street, Bosto7i. 



THE RECORD. 



It is well known that the great Ameri- 
can Party in this Cummonwealth — the 
party wliich nominated Millard Fillmore 
for President, and Andrew J. Donelson 
for Vice President, of the United States 
have also nominated George William 
Gordon, of Boston, for tlie high and honor- 
able office of Governor of IMassachusetts. 
Who is George Wilham Gordon? This 
question is asked by young men of the 
present day who are not familiar with the 
position lie formerly held in this commu- 
nity, and who, in consequence of his ab- 
sence (luring a series of years from his na- 
tive country; while exercising the duties 
of an im[)ortant and responsible public 
trusi, have forgotten the public services 
he once rendered, and the space he once 
filled among us, and also that he posses- 
ses qualifications of a nature eminently 
calculated to secure the confidence and 
support of the patriotic American citizens 
of old Massachusetts. 

Mr. Gordon was born in Exeter, New 
Hampshire. His father, Mr. John Gor- 
don, was a thriving farmer of that town, 
honored and respected by his fellow- 
townsmen for his probity and worth. 
The first members of tlie Gordon family, 
in this country, were fbnr brothers, who 
came over from Sco; '.and nearly two hun- 
dred years ago, three of whom settled in 
New England, and one in Virginia. The 
farm, in Exeter, on which is now visible 
the cellar of the first house erected by the 
Gordons in America, is still in possession 
of the family. 

The youthful days of George William 
Gordon, the subject of our sketch, were 



devoted to the usual labors of a farmer's 
son in New Eagland. But his early prom- 
ise was such as to determine his parents 
to forego his assistance on the farm, for 
the purpose of giving him a libera! edu- 
cation ; and he accordingly entered upon 
his studies at " Pnillips' Exeter Acade- 
my," under the tnition of the celebrated 
Dr. Abbott. But the congenial occupa- 
tion of study was too tempting an allure- 
ment for the young scholar, and, under 
the sedentary habits of a student, his 
early robust health, matured as it had 
been by active and laborious exercise, 
gave way, and at the close of a success- 
ful academic career, he was reluctantly 
obliged to relinquish the prospective hon- 
ors which awaited his entrance into a 
professional life, and bidding farewell to 
the coveted pursuits of literature, he left 
his native town and came to Boston with 
the design of herc'engaging in mercantile 
pursuits. He was gradviated at the Acad- 
emy with the highest honors, having as- 
signed to him, without rivalry, the vale- 
dictory address ; and, with two other stu- 
dents, he received one of the first three 
diplomas ever awarded by that institu- 
tion. 

Such is the story of his youth. As 
years of manhood came, the traits which 
won the successes of the scliool-boy, de- 
veloped into those noble qualities which 
combine to make the upright and honor- 
able merchant and the sterling man. 

"Upon his arrival in Boston, Mr. Gordon 
engaged in the employment of Daniel 
Denny, Esq., now the partner of the pres- 
ent Governor of the Commonwealth. — 



Bat soon his health again failed him, and 
for its restoration he visited tlie South, 
and passed the greater part of a year in 
the milder climates of Virginia and the 
Carolinas. At length, his health becom- 
ing again restored, he returned to Boston, 
and, in 1830, engaged in the importing 
business as a member of the firm of Gor i 
don & Stoddard, a firm well known and 
much respected during the next succeed- ■ 
ing nine years. AVhile at the head of j 
this firm, in the furtherance of his busi- 
ness, he passed a season in Europe. — 
During these nine years he held several 
important public offices. For five suc- 
cessive years, from 1331 to 1836, he was 
a member of the City Council of Boston, 
and for five years subsequently, he was 
connected as director with one of the city 
institutions. In the year 1832 his atten- 
tion was directed to the disastrous ef- 
fects of the lottery system, as it then ex- 
isted, by which thousands of individuals 
of scanty means had been reduced to 
poverty and want ; and in March of the 
succeeding year, he prepared his celebra- 
ted lecture upon the subject ; a lecture 
remarkable for power and originally of 
thought, and which, after being delivered 
by him several times in Boston and the 
neighboring towns, was published and 
circulated by thousands throughout New 
England, and received a highly compli- 
mentary notice from the North American 
Review. This lecture exposed the per- 
nicious effects of the system, and led to 
the enactment, by the Legislature then in 
session, of existing laws upon the subject, 
under the salutary inflnence of which 
the lottery business in this State has 
been suppressed. 

The firm of Gordon Sc Stoddard, was 
one of the many houses that suffered by 
the disastrous financial season of 1836 
and 1837, and sad havoc was made with 
the successful accumulations of Mr. Gor- 
don Yet such was his honor and in- 
tegrity, that on the dissolution of his firm 
in 1839, he gave his obligations for $8,500 
over and above all his remaining proper- 
ty, to be paid by him thereafter, when his 
future earnings should enable him, to do 
so, inconsideratioi]|rhatall the debts of his 
late firm should, be killy paid by hife suc- 
cessors. This obligation has long since 



been paid and cancelled ; and to this fact 
so honorable to him, many of the mer- 
chants now doing business in Boston will 
bear willing testimony. 

Under the belief that his fortune had 
been sacrificed mainly by the mal-ad min- 
istration of the general government, Mr. 
Gordon, although still continuing in busi- 
ness, under a new firm, engaged some- 
what in political aflixirs, and in 1840 was 
strongly and prominently enlisted with 
the friends of General Harrison. After 
the conclusion of that exciting political 
campaign, which resulted in the election 
of General Harrison' to the Presidency, 
without expecting or desiring office, it 
was suggested to him by the Hon. Abbott 
Lawrence, that the citizens of Boston 
would be glad to have him receive the 
appointment of Postmaster of their city. 
After consultation with his friends, he con- 
sented to become a candidate for that of- 
fice, and a paper, of which the following 
is a copy, was immediately circulated for 
signatures. 

TO THE PRESIIJENT OF THE U. STATES. 

The undersigned, citizens of Boston, respect- 
fully recommend Mr. George William Gordon 
for the office of Postmaster, of this city. Mr. 
Gordon is a merchant of integrity, a gentleman 
of unblemished reputation, and of acknowledged 
public and private moral worth. Such is the esti- 
mation in which he is held by his friends and neigh- 
bors, that we have good reason to believe he will 
have no competitor who will so generally com- 
mand the approval of the community. 

Boston, February, 1841. 

To the great gratification of Mr. Gor- 
don and his friends, this highly commen- 
datory paper immediately received the 
signatures of about nine hundred of the 
most distinguished citizens of Boston, 
embracing all prolessions and classes. — 
We would gladly refer more particularly 
to some of the many distinguished names 
upon it, did the limits of our sketch per- 
mit. It must salfica to say that the pa- 
per combined the strength and influence 
of the city ; and almost immediately after 
the inauguration of General Harrison. — 
Mr. Gordon was ajjpointed to the office he 
sought. Every Boston man who can look 
back fifteen years in the history of our 
citj, remembers how ably the affairs of 
the post-office were conducted during his 



adriiinislraiiori. He discharged his duties j tent of the African slave trade, aa jau- 
to the entire acceptance of the community I sued hy ^mencan vessels, under the pro- 
lor nearly three years, wnen Mr. Tyler, i tection of the American flasr ; and his 
who had succeeded to the Presidency up- 1 voluminous corre&£-.:"dence with the De- 
on thedeathof General Harrison, thought ipartment of State, comprised, besides a 
it necessary, for political reasons alone, toi v?>t, amount of commercial information of 
reappoint Mr. Nathaniel Green, the pred- 1 the highest importance, full details of 
ecessor of Mr. Gordon, to the ofiice. — | the extent and manner in Avhich Amen- 
For the purpose of making the place va- ;can vessels are employed in this trade, 
cant, Mr. Gordon was oflered the consul- 1 especially between both the east and 
ship either at Lyons in France, or at Pwio ! west coasts of Africa and Brazil. In the 
de Janeiro, in Brazil, the latter being an i year 1&46, this correspondence, being cal- 



office of higher grade and larger emolu 
ments. He, however, declined both ap- 
pointments, and he was then offered the 
position of a Charge d' i^ffaires to Portu- 
gal. The Charge ship also he declined, 
and he was asked to resign. This also, 
he refused to do, although the request 
was coupled with assurances of great con- 



led for by the Hun. John Quincy Adams, 
was communicated to the national House 
of Pwepresentatives ; but a motion made 
by him for printing it, was lost, 
through the opposition of the Southern 
members. But while his despatches to 
the Department of State were refused a 
publication by the Congress of his own 



sideratii-n on the part of the government, j country, several of them, which upon so- 
Mr. Gordon then placed his case in the ! licitation were furnished to the British 
hands of Hon. Daniel Webster, who was [Minister at Bio de Janciio, weie publish- 
Secretary of State at the time, and by led by the British Parliament. 



whom he was held in high esteem ; and 
just before Mr. Webster returned from 
the Cabinet, in the latter part of 1843, 
and through his influence, aided by that 
of Governor Wickliile, of Kentucky^ then 
Postmaster General, the offer of the con- 
sulship at Pvio de Janeiro was again ten 
dered to him, and accepted. 

Upon the receipt of this new appoint- 



We have recently been pprmitted to 
examine a portion of this correspondence, 
addressed partly to the Hon. John C. 
Calhoun, and partly to the PIou. James 
Buchanan, when each held the office of 
Secretary of State, and it discloses many 
facts that ought to be in possessiun of the 
people. Ur.der date of Sept. 25, 1845, 
Mr. Gordon states that, " Since the be- 



ment, Mr. Gordon immediately repaired ginning of the year 1840, sixty foi;k 
to Brazil, being sent out by the govern- American vessels had been sold at the 
ment in the frigate Raritan, commanded [ port of Rio de Janeiro, amounting in the 



by Commodore Gregory 

It was, perhaps, during the two follow- 
ing years of Mr. Gordon's residence at 
Hi), that the most important of all the 



aggregate to 10,418 tons, of which thir- 
ty FOUR VESSELS, am.ounting to 6.206 tons, 
ate reported to have been subsequently 
employed in the Slave trade, and that 



many servicable acts of his public life, during the same period there had depart- 
were discharged. We regret that in this , ed from the port of Bio de Janeiro ior 
brief historical notice of the services of the coast of Africa, Fifty six American 
the candidate of the American party for ' vessels ; and Forty American vessels 
the office of Governor of Massachusetts, i had arrived at that port from the coast : 
our restricted limits preclude us from do- 1 in all, Ninety six American vessels, 
ing justice to the subject. We can only {amounting in the aggregate to 20,295 
allude to a few of the most prominent in- 1 tons, employed during that period, be- 



cidents of his career, necessarily omitting 
many important events and actions which 
redounded to the advantage of his coun- 
try and the honor of himself. 

Upon his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, the 
attention of Mr. liJordon was at once at- 
tracted to the alarming character and ex- 



tween Rio de Janeiio ai-d the African 
continen*:." 

So efficient and judicious were the ef- 
forts of Mr. Gordon, in suppressing this 
nefarious traffic, that excepting the first 
two months of his consulship, before he 
had obtained the necessary information to 



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act advisedly in thG nia'ucr, tlici-e were 
a larger uuniber of American ve.ssels clear- 
ed from Brazil for the coast of Africp.jengag' 
ed directly and indirectly in the slave 
trade during the three months next prior 
[o liis arrival at Rio de Janeiro and also 
during the three months next subsequent 
to his vecall, than there were during the 
whole term of his administralion of that 
consulship. 

A few months after his arrival at Bra- 
zil, he arrested and sent to the L''nited 
•States for trial, upon the charge of piracy 
in being engaged in the foreign slave 
trade, Capt. J. S. Pendleton, master of 
the American brig " Montevideo," togeth- 
er V.'ith his officers and crew, consisting 
altogether of twelve persons. This ves- 
sel had been fitted at the little pot't of 
Victoria, near Cape Frio, in Br;izil, with 
aspare deck and other fixtures for the trade, 
had taken on board a cargo suitable to the 
voyage, and had been delive.ed in that 
condition by the master to the Portuguese 
rslave dealers upon the coast of Africa* 
The master and his ship's company were 
arrested by order of Mr. Gordon, on their 
return to Rio de Janeiro, when applying 
to the consul to discharge the crew a.nd 
cancel the register. Pendleton Was tried 
and convicted in Baltimore; butv/assub- 
equently pardoned by President Polk. 

At about the same time, the ofllcers of 
three other American vessels, which had 
been delivered on the coast of Africa to 
5; lie slave dealers, who had returned to 
Rio Janeiro on their v/ay home, fled from 
the place before Mr. Gordon could obtain 
the necessary evidence to warrant their 
arrest. In one case, however, that of 
Capt. tliram. Gray, of the brig Agnes, the 1 
evidence was coUeGied and ibrvvarded tu 
the Department of State, and Capt. Gray } 
v.^as subsequently tried at Wjlmington, j 
Delaware. But at the time of trial, the| 
witnesses had become f?o dispersed that 
all of them coald not be found, and he es- 
caped conviction. Information as to the 
guilt of several other American citizens ^ 
was also communicated by Mr. Gordon to [ 
the Government, but -either the parties or 
witnesses could not be found, or the gov 
ernment was indillerent respecting the cas- 1 
es, and the trials v/ere not proceeded with. | 

Early in the year 1846 there arrived in i 
F'AO de Janeiro, from the east coa°t of 



Afi-ica, the AfflSliian Ijlig " rorpolso," 
belonging, accorduig to her register, ia 
George h\ Ricliardson, of Brunswick^ 
Maine, and commanded by Cyrus Libby^ 
of Scarboro, Maine, having on board, as 
passengers, a large company of Brazilian 
or Portuguese slave deo.lers, returned 
from the scene of their depredations in 
Africa ; also the master, (Capt. George 
H. .Douglass, belonging to Philadelphia,) 
the officers and the crev/, twelve in num^ 
ber, of the American brig Kentucky, of 
New York, and three Negro slave boys. 
On this arrivab and before the passengers 
vi^ere, by the regulations of the port, per- 
mited to go on shore, one of the crew of 
the Kentucky contrived; by throwing a 
letter addressed to the Consul, into the 
boat belonging to tlie Anrerican squadron, 
which went alongside of her to inquire 
whence she came, to give information 
that there were slaves on board. Mr. 
Gordon immediately, with characteristic 
promptness, repaired on board the vessel, 
and, by permission of the GuAunA Mor, 
or officer of the port, who happened also 
I to be on board, took charge of the tbrcC 
slave boys, and pla,ceo them on board the 
United States frigate Pvaritan, then lying 
in that port. On this information being 
communicated to the Brasilian authori' 
tier?, they took possession of the tessel, 
her officers, crew, and all the passengers, 
except the thebe slave boys, ■whom Mr. 
Gordon refused to surrender. After a 
prolonged examination, however, the 
{)risoners were all discharged, and the 
vessel released. As soon as the result 
of this examination was made known, 
Mr. Gordon demanded the vessel which 
had meantime been abandoned by bet 
consignees, of the Brazilian authoritiesj 
and obt lining possession of her, placed 
her in charge of Commodore Turner, then 
commanding the American squadron on 
the Brasilian station, v/ho subseqticntly 
sent her to Boston. Captain Libby, 
through the interference of the local au- 
thorities, who refused to arrest him on 
the pretence that he had once been tried, 
escaped) and returned to the tJnited 
•States of his own accord ; but on infor- 
mation communicated by Mr. Gordon to 
the Marshal of Massachusetts, by the 
same vessel, on board of v/hich the Capt. 



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!iad returned, hd \Va^ sfte^vvarcls airestedi '^And depoiieht fui-tiier said, that oh the 
In Maine; and tried before Justice Wood-! hest day after the vessel crossed the bar, 
biiry^ but ecdaped conviction, in conse-jon leaving Inhambathe, as aforesaid, the 
•naelice of the exti-eme difficulty of pror- ! negtoes lose ufJon the officers and crew, 
ing, Upon persons tried in. tlie United; A majority of the meh, all of whom had 
States, Crimes Committed in Africa, or | been in irons, got their itoKs ofF-^broke 
upon the high seas. Tlie vessel^ how-^ j through the bidkheftd into the females* 
ever, -%Vas libelled upon her arrival in : apartment, and likewise thi-ough into the 
Boston, sold by the United Stales Maf-^ ] forecastle; Upon this the captain armed 
'shali and the proceeds paid into Court. ; the cre\y with fcntlasses and got out all 
But the case, upon various pleas I the muskets and pistols and loaded them^ 



made by the defendant; was delayed un 
til the last yearj when, in the month 
of July, ] 855, it was tried in the Uni' 



and the crew 'were firing dowti amongst 
the! slaves for balf an hour or more; In 
the mean time deponent was nailing down 



led P^tates Courtj sitting in Boston, before | the hatches, and used iio musket or pistol, 
Justice Curtis, and the vessel condemned, and there was nd occasion as the Brazilian 
upon the evidence placed in possession of"i sailors seemed to like the sport* In about 
the goveran.ent by Mr. Gordon, although i half an hour they wei-e eubdued, and be- 
ten years had elapsed since her seizurei j came quiet again. The slaves wete then 

"With the outward cargoes of this ves- brought up on deck, eight or ten at a 
sel, (the Porpoise,) and of the American time, and ii'oned afresh--— -they wei-e all re- 
hrig', Kentucky, which, after being dis-|iroiied that afternoon and put below, ex-^ 
charged on the coast, was delivered tOr| cepting about geven^ who remained on 
the slave dealers, there were purchased ! deck. iVolie were killed on this occasion^ 
at different places oh De Lagoa Bay, and bui> eight oi* ten nioi-e or less v/oundedo 
about 2S00 human beings all of wdioin They fired with balls in the pistols and 
were consigned to slavery ; from v/hich i shot in the mu'skets; Supposes the rea^ 
number four vessels were freighted on j son none were killed is that they had to 
their return voyages to Bra.^il-^^to wit: jfii-e through the grate of the hatches, and 
the brig Iv.entucky, with 530 slaves ; Gar- [the slaves got out of the way as mueh as 
afelia, with about 300 slaves ; " The l7th ; they could. On the liext day, they Ivere 
of Marchi" with about 400 slaves, and ' brought up on deck, two or three doaeii at 
the Laguna, with 500; making altogether ' a time, all being well ironed and tkied 
upwards of seventeen hundred thus con- , by Capt. Fovv^seca and officers, anditithin 
veyed to the land of their servitudcj the ' t^Vo oi* three days after forty-sis men 
remainder were shipped by other vessels. : and one woman were hung and shot and 

A^ hi!e dwelling upon the energetic and thrown overboard. I'hey were ironed or 
l)raise\vorthy course pursued by Mr. Gor-j chained two together^— and when they 
don, in relation to the slave trade, during ] were hung, a rope was put round their 
the period of his dcusulship at Pi-io, a 1 iiecks ahd they -Were druAvn up to the yard 
course which few other men v/ould have \ arm4 clear of the rail — this did not kill 
liad the courage and independence to i them but only choked or strangled them— » 
follow, we cannot resist the temptation to | they v/ere then shot in the breast and the 
extract from the evidence taken by him : bodies thrown overboard. If only one of 
in the case of the brig Pcrpoise, the foh ^ the two that were chained together was to 
lowing thrilling revelation of the horrors i be hmig^ a rope was put round his neck, 
of that dreadful traffic v/hich he labored i and he was drawn up clear of the deck, be- 
so earnestly to suppress. It is a passage ' side of the bulwarks^ and his leg laid 
from the testimony of a man named Ed- 1 across the rail and chopped off to cave the 
Ward Page, who had served as a sailor on irons and release him from his companion, 
board the brig Kentucky, on her outv/ard ; who at the same time lifted up his leg till 
voyage, but v/ho on account of some dif-;the other's was choped off, as aforesaid, 
ficulty with the Captain, was discharged i and he released, the bleeding negro was 
in Afi-ica, and in order to return home, I then drawn up, shot in the breast and 
Was obliged to ship on board the Ken- {thrown overboard as aforesaid. iSs^ . . 
tucky.with her cargo of slayer?. ' 



r "The legs of about a dozen were chopped 
off in this way. When the feet fell on 
deck, they were picked up by the Brazil- 
ian crew and thrown overboard, and some- 
times at the body while it still hung liv* 
ing, and all kina of sport was made of 
the business . When two that were chained 
together were to be hung, they were hung 
up together by their necks, shot, a.nd 
thrown overboard, irons and all. When 
the woman was hung up and shot, the 
ball did not take effect, arid she was 
thrown overboard living, and was seen to 
struggle some time in the water before she 
sunk. 

" And deponent further said, that after 
this was over, they brought up and flogged 
about 20 men and 6 women. When they 
were flogged, they were laid flat upon the 
deck, and their hands tied and secured to 
one ring bolt, and their feet to another. 
They were then whipped by two men at a 
time; by the one with a stick about two 
feet long, with five or six strands of raw- 
hide secured to the end of it— the>hide 
was dry and hard and about two feet long ; | 
and by the other with a piece of the hide 
of a sea-horse — this was a strip about 
four feet long — from half an inch to an 
inch wide, thicker than one's finger, and 
hard as whalebone, but more flexible. 
The flogging was very severe. 

" Deponent and another Englishman on 
board, named Edward Blake, were obliged 
to assist in the flogging, as the Brazilians 
got tired. Deponent flogged four, but he 
got clear of the hanging and shooting 
business. All the Avomen that were 
flogged at this time died, but none of the 
men. Many of them, however, were sick 
all the passage, and Avere obliged to lay 
on their bellies during the remainder of 
the voyage, and some of them could 
hardly get on shore, on arrival at Cape 
Frio. The flesh of some of them, where 
they were flogged, (which was not gener- 
ally on their backs, but on their posteriors, J 
putrfied and came oS" in some places 6 or 
8 iniches in diameter, and in places half 
an inch deep. Their Avounds were dressed 
and filled up by the Contra Mestre, with 
Farinha and Cachaga made into a poultice, 
.and sometimes with a salve made on 
board. W^hen the Farinha and Cachaga 



were applied, the poor creatures woviid 
shiver and tremble for half an hour, and 
groan and sob with the most intense agony. 
They Avere a shocking and horrible sight 
during the Avhole passage." 

It would be interesting to "ihe reader, 
by shoAving the varied horrors of this ne- 
farious traffic, If further extracts Avere 
maae from the testimony taken by Mr. 
Gordon in these cases ; but our space for- 
bids. We hazard no contradiction in say- 
ing, that no person in the United States 
has done more— >-Ave know of none Avho 
have done as much— to expose che wick* 
conesa of this trarfic, and the manner in 
Avhich it is conducted by American vessels 
under the American flag, than did Mr>- 
Gordon, during his short residence of a 
little more than tAvo years, in Brazil. In 
that period, he caused to be arrested, and 
sent to the United States for trial, four 
American shipmasters, Avith their officers, 
and a part of their crcAvs, amounting alto- 
gether to thirty persons, on the charge of 
having engaged in the foreign slave trade. 
If all consuls of the United States, resi" 
dent in Brazil and the West Indies, v»'Ould 
discharge their duties in this regard with 
the same energy and fidelity, (and if they 
Avere sustained in their course by the Gov-' 
ernment at home.) the connection of Amer- 
icans and American vessels Avith this trade 
Avould soon be brought to ah end, to the 
great honor of our Government and the 
Nation. 

The three slave boys rescued from the 
brig "Porpoise," and freed from slavery 
by Mr. Gordon, AVere sent by him in the 
" Porpoise " to Boston, and became free^ 
One of them Avas the servant of Captain 
Libby. He afterAVards adopted the- sea- 
faring profession, and ia nuAV absent at 
sea. The other two, by name Pedro and 
Guilherme, had been servants on board of 
the " Porpoise" to the slave dealers. One 
of them is now in the employ of Virgil 
D. Paris, Esq., of Paris, Me. The other 
is in Milton, Massachusetts, pursuing the 
occupation of a barber, and both are re^ 
spccted and thriving members of the com-' 
munities in Avhich they dAvell. 

But these Avere not the only slaves that 
Mr. Gordon rescued from the bondage of 
slavery. Besides the three African boys. 



"\c delivered iWc otlieis cf our race froii\ 
;he cruel fetters of the slave. They were 
a mother md child-— the molhcr a nativ=o 
of Africa, brought tc Brazil in a slave 
shio, many ye9,rs before, and the daughter, 
an interesting little girl of about nine 
vears. While still slaves, both motheT i 
ana aaugbter Were hired as serv-ants in the j 
family of Mr. Orordon. and as the mother 
was faithful, and the child obedient, they 
soon won the hearts of their em.pleyers'. | 
While in this pleasant situa tion, they were 
informed by their owner that, unless pre- 1 
viously disposed of at private sale, he in- 
•jended to sell them at auction on a certain ! 
day. This sad ^intelligence occasioned the j 
greatest distress. The dread of a new j 
^.aster, and the fear of being purchased 
for field service, rendered the mother 
Almost a maniac. Mr. Gordon's kindly 
heart was not proof against the appeals of 
3orrow, and with that noble generosity 
which through life has formed a distin- 
guishing trait of his character, he at once 
paid the sum demanded for them, being 
■twelve hundred mz, reis — which is equiv" 
alent to a little more than six hundred 
dollars — and gave to both their freedom. 

No greater happiness or delight vv'as 
ever manifested by human beings than 
\;hese poor slaves appeared to experience 
\vuen presented with their free papers-, and 
«\o services more faithful were ever ren- 
dered by servants than were subsequently 
i'cndercd by that African mother and her 
child. In the family of Mr. Gordon, they 
continued during the remaining year of 
his residence in Era?dl. When the time 
of his departure drew neat, the mother 
was placed in the family of Mr. Todd, the 
American Minister, and the daughter ac- 
companied the family of Mr. Gordon to 
the United States, and still continues with 
them, a valued and faithful fi-ee servant. 

Thus Mr. Gordon has been directly in- 
■strumental in freeing from the unnatural 
bondage of slavery several human beings. 
Who of us can boast of more praiseworthy 
acts ? Who ca.n show a more brilliant rec- 
ord, with living witnesses to sustain it? 
And to whom is greater honor due ? 
These were good deeds done,, not for the 
homage and applause of ttieil, but the 
spontaneous outpourings of a humane and 
generous heart. 



In his extrtiolis foi* the supj^i'ession of 
the Slave Tradfe, Mr. Gordon expended 
money freely from his own private re- 
feources, and he has, at the present time^ a 
daim upon government lor several thou- 
sand dO'lars expended in this cause, and 
for the reimbursement of which there is 
but little prospect. But the consciousness 
of a good action brings^ of all rewards, the 
best, and he is satisfied to know that it 
was money well bestowed. 

When Mr. Gordon returned to the 
United States, in 1846, he again engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, in Boston, having 
determined to have no further connection 
with public afi'aira or politics. But in 
18495 after the election of General Taylor 
to the Presidency, he v."as prevailed upon 
by a Committee re-oresenting the mer- 
chants of our principal cities and the nor- 
thern manufactui'ers, and, in compliance 
with their urgent request ana at the soli- 
citation of the Hon. William M, Mere- 
dith, then Secretary of the Treasury, con- 
sented to go to Washington, to furnish 
facts and data for the annual report of the 
latter to Congress. All the facts pertain- 
ing "to manufactures and commerce^ and 
the tarifi" contained in the appendix to 
that report, were collected and furnished 
by him ; and so useful were his services in 
that department, that he was continued In. 
Washington from the middle of October, 
1849, through the v/hcle of the then ensv.'- 
iiig long Session of Congress, which ad- 
journed at the close of September follow- 
ing ; his expenses and per diem pay being 
defrayed by the Committee who had en- 
gaged his services. 

During this peiiod, as he had been for 
years before, Mr^ Gordon was on terms cf 
intimate relations with the Hon. Daniel 
Webster and the Hon. Millard Fillmore, 
President of the United States. He was 
also upon terms cf acquaintance with most 
of the mx.embers both of the Senate and 
House, and, indeed, with ail of the dis- 
tinguished men in Washington, being 
brought into direct intercourse with them 
by the duties he was there to discharge* 

Upon the admission of California into 
the Union as a State^ he was offered, by 
Mr. Webster, the post of Naval Ofiicer ^-t 
San Francisco, an office of great responsi- 



"bilitiy i«tcl large emaii.rments, clrc^wing a 
salary at this time of eight thousand dol- 
lars per annum. Eut the education of 
his. children precluded their departure 
from the Atlantic States, and the place 
was not accepted. Near the close of the 
long Session of Congress, howeTer, of that 
year, and by the action of the Senate, the 
ofiice of Postmaster of Boston lva3 sud- 
denly made vacant, and without solicita-^ 
tion on bis part, and altogethex unexpect- 
edly to him until the very etening. on 
which the nomination was made, he' was., 
at the instance of Mr. Webster, re-ap- 
pointed by President Fillmore, wi^h the 
iiiianimous consent of the Senate, to fill 
tr.c;t vacancy; and he continued to hold 
that office to the entire app-obation of hjs 
fellow-citizens until the period of his- res- 
ignation, at th% request of President 
Fierce, is the Autumn of 1&53^. 

Mr, Gordon's long experience in public 
affairs, his acquaintance with public men, 
and his faithful and able discharge of the 
various- duties that have devolved upon 
rim, both as a public man and ss a private 
citizen, all commend him- to the highest 
respect and confidence of the community . 

When the American party was first or- 
ganized, he was in Brazil, and Mr. Web- 
ster's great speech on the Naturalization 
haws, delivered in Faneuil Kail, in 1844, 
reached him while he resided there. He 
coincided then, as he coincides- now, -stith 
the views- which Mr. Webster expressed, 
liis doctrine has long beeli that " Ameki- 

OAKS SHOULD KULE AmEKIGA; !" ±5ut, 

until the decea'se of that^t distinguished 
Statesman aind the clisbandm^nt of the 
Wliig party, he voted wi'th the WMgs. 
Sines that period, wifhoatt abandoning 
one iota of his Whig principles, he has 
voted mainly with the American pufSy, 
without, however, having attached him- 
rielf to their organizaticnt until the past 
y&ar. With the old Whigs- he can truly 
:io.y, that he has no principles to change— ^- 
r.or has he found occasion to change any. 
Now, as ever, he belongs to the gfeaf 
conservative party of the Union, believing 
that the Union of the States is the greates* 
.blessing that each and all of them can 
enjoy. 



Upon 'che subject of Slavery, Mi-. Gor- 
don entertains the great conjrervati^e viewr 
of the -sthole North. He holds to the 
doctrine that the great sectional compro- 
mises that were deliberately entered into 
by the Government, and acquiesced in 
year after year, by the entire country, foi 
the sake of preserving -the tjnion invio- 
late, amid the stotms of political ccnten-" 
tiofl,' should be held inviolate,- and that noli 
one inch More of territory onCe' conse'crat- 
ed to Freedom, should be yielded up to 
Slavety. He depTecatesr, in common with 
all other faix-minded, con'scrvative m^en,- the 
outrages that have been perpetrated upon' 
the virgin !?oil of Kansas, and holds thati 
the people there, as elsewhere, should be 
protected ih the bcscowffl of thei"^ &uffrc5ges.- 
He believes that freedom can exist only 
v/h'e:?e the l^sws rule,- a;nd whe:?e the people 
ate p'afties to making the laths'. Secure' 
to- the people of Kansas thei? rights, and 
he entertains no fears but that Kansas will' 
beeoWie a f?ee Stsfte. 

In religi'ous belief, Mr. Gordon is thor- 
oughly prCfcCstant. Brought up from hir 
mother's knees in the belief fiird under the 
influence of orthodos doctn:ftes, he has' 
seen no feason to ch&nge that b-elief. 
Ye5' he is- withoTit bigotry 5 and while he 
would zealously guard our institutions' 
from all combin'ffltions of priestcraft and 
Itoman dictation, he -stould srtill grant to 
all the largest libetly in' religious opinions. 

M-r. Gordon is' emphatically a self --made 
man. The history cf his life' is a record- 
of in'drstry and ent-erp^if7e. Hh character 
ex'hibits Ihe umisual com'bination of 
great moral worffh, united with remarkable 
business talents and rare administrative 
powers. Of ipufe mind and spo'iless in Jfeg-" 
fity, be i's, at the same -fiin^e, clear-sigh1>ed 
and prucfent. The natural impulses of a 
foo boimteous heart are tempe:!*ed by the' 
curb of reason. Through life, Mr. Gord-on' 
has- acro?ned ah'd honored every post of 
public and priva'te dui'y ^0 which he hag- 
been" called;- aud should he, hf Hhe voice 
of the people,- be sumui'oned to guide the 
car of government, in ou? State, we may 
confidently anticipate a wise, vigorour 
and eminently efficient- admiujsti'at-i-on-. 



ilesciied by George Wm. Gordon, from the Slave Brig " Porpoise," at Rio de Ja- 
neiro, againsl the influence of the Brazihan C4overnment, and by him sent to this 
Gouncry, ^vl^ere they are nov/ in the enjoyment of freedom and prosperity. 



Kxamiiiation of Pedro and Guillierme, two 
African boys, who were broiight from the east 
'joast of Africa, to the port of llio de Janeiro, in 
the United States merchant Brig, Porpoise, Cyrus 
Libby, master, in January 1845, before Geo. ^Vm. 
Gordon, Consul of the United States, on board 
of the U> S. Frigate " Karitan," February 1st, 
1 815. The questions propounded in the Eng- 
lish language by the Consul, and the answers 
made in the Portuguese language by the said 
boys, the former being translated into the Portu- 
guese language when put, and the latter into the 
I'^nglish language when made, by the undersigned, 
■Sworn Public Translator at the Imperial Court 
of Brazil and Interpreter of the Nation. 

• L. S. John Henry Kagfx. 

Before being interrogated the boys were asked, 
i'.f they knew that there was a God. Their an- 
swers only indicated great confusion of niind up- 
on the subject. They were asked if they knew 
the nature of an oath. They said that they did 
not. The proper explanations were then im- 
pressively made to them. When they said, that 
jf tliey told the truth they should be happy, but 
if they told a lie, they would go to a bad place. 



Interrogations, and answere to the same by Pe- 
dro, one of the boys a,foresaid. 

1st Que5/.!G?£. What is your narne, and how 
old are you ? 

Ansicer. My name is Pedro, I am 15 years 
old. 

2?tcf Q. Where v/ere your born ? 

A^ In Lourenzo Marquez, in tlie interior of 
the country. 

\^d Q. Were yet; a free boy cr a slave when 
you arrived in this port ? 

A. Was a slave. 

iih Q-. How were you made a skve, and 
Nvhen ? 

A. When our Nation mt.s in \-;v: with anoth- 
■cv Nation I was taken prisoner, and was sold 
\vhen I was a child. 

bih Q-. What was your master's name who 
!K»ught you ? 

A. Was called Seba'Stian.. 

i'yib. Q. Did Sebastian afterwards sell you ? 
and if so, to whom ? 

A, He sold me to Captain Paulo, 

T//^ Q. How much did Captain Paulo sjive 
for youi' 

••/ifs Z don't know, Sebastian sent Ha« to Capt, 



Paulo's foctory, at Lourenzo Marquez, and Cap- 
tain Paulo tokl me that I vras sold to liim. 

Sth Q. What did Captain Paulo then do with 
you? 

A. I was the boy to serve at table. 

Qth Q. Did Captain Paulo ever whip or other- 
wise punish you at any time ? 

A. He never struck me or anjthing of that 
kind. 

lOth Q. How long did you stay at the fac- 
tory at Lourenzo Marquez ? 

A, 1 don't know how to tell it. 

llih Q. When you left the factory, where 
were you taken to ? 

A. I was embarked at the factory on board 
the Brig schooner and went to Imyack, (pointing 
at the same time at the Brig " Porpoise," which 
was lying near by.) 

12f7t Q. Where chdyou go then from Imyack? 

A.. I came here in the same vessel, (again 
pointing at the Porpoise.) 

Vdih Q. Did Captain Paulo ever tell you that 
you were free ? 

A. Never, hut that I was a slave. 

lUh Q. Did Captain Paulo ever tell you to 
say tliat you were free, in case any one should 
ask you ? 

A, A'^es. He told me if any person should 
ask me, to answer that I was free. 

loth Q. Did you or did you not expect to be 
a slave to Captain Paulo here in Brazil ? 

.4. I expected always to be a slave to Captain 
Paulo, when I arrived here. 

10//t Q. Were you ever branded with a hot 
hon as a slaw ? If so, w hen, and by w hom ? 

A. I was branded by Sabastian, on the breast, 
(which mark he showed), but I was not branded 
by Captain Paulo, as I v\as to serve on board the 
vessi3l ; but the other slaves which Avent on board 
the Brazilian vessel "Garafilia," were all branded 
at the factory. 

nth Qi. Have you any brothers and sisters ? 
If so, how many of each, and what are their 
names ? 

A. I hPvVe three brothers, but no sisters. My 
lirothers are called Luiz, iManuel, and Antonio. 

18/^ Q. Do you know where they are ; cr 
either of them? 

A. They were all brought by Cai:;tain Paulo, 
as he brought me, and all three are on board tlie 
•'Garafilia." 

Idth Q. What are their a^es? 



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A. I don't know their ages. But Manuel and 
Antonio are larger than I am, but Luiz is smaller. 

20iA. Q. Were your brothers branded by 
Captain Pculo ? If so, where ? 

A. They were all branded at the factory, on 
the arm, with the mark P. 

2\st Q. Did either of your brothers go with 
you in the Brig "Porpoise" from the factory? — 
if so, which, and where ? 

A. My brother Luiz, only, embarked with 
me on board the Brig "Porpoise" at the iactory 
at Lourenzo Marquez and went to Imyack, and 
then he was sent on board the " Garafilia." 

22(f Q. T>o you now wish to go with Captain 
Paulo again ? 

A. No. I have no such desire, at ail. 

23d Q. Where do you wish to go ? 

A. I desire to be a freeman and go to the 
United States. 

Then Pedro made solemn declaration that what 
he had said as aforesaid was true. 
Attest, 

John Henry Kagel, 
Sworn Public Translator at the 
Imperial Court of Brazil and In- 
terpreter of the Nation. 




Interrogatories and answers to the same, by Guil- 

herme one of the boys aforesaid. 

\st (Question. What is your name, and how 
old are you. 

Answer. My name is Guilherme. I don't 
know how old I am. I was taken when I was a 
little boy. 

2d Q. Where were }'ou born ? 

A. In the country near Inliambane. 

Sd Q. "W^ere you a tree boy or a slave wlien 
you arrived in this port ? 

A. Was a slave. 

ith Q. How were you made a slave ? and 
where ? ■ 

A. Was made a slave in war, and carried to \ 
Inhambane, when a child. | 

oth Q. What was your master's name, who j 
bought you ? _ i 

A. ilis name was Manuel Henrique. j 

iith Q. Did Manuel Henrique afterwards sell 
you ? If so, to whom ? 

A. Manuel Henrique sold me to an overseer 
named Almeido, who sold me to Capt. Paulo. 

1th Q. How much did Captain Paulo give for 
you ? 

A. I don't know how much. The overseer put 
::t> his pocket some yellow money which Captain 
l\aulo gave him, who said I was his slave. [Guil- 
herme was at this time sho-sra some silver dollars, 
a|doubloon, a half and a quarter doubloon, and .' 
<>ome copper, two vintem pieces, and was asked I 
if any of the same was the kind of money G\p- 
tain Paulo paid for him. He immediately point- 
ed out the gold pieces, saying os amardlas, the 



yellow ones. He was then asked which of 
them ? When he pointed to the half doubloon 
and said estc, this, and then added, counting iiis 
fingers at the same time, cinco dinheiros, five 
pieces.] 

Slh Q. What did Captain Paulo then do with 
you ? 

A. I went to attend upon the captain and take 
care of his things aboard of the vessel. 

9//i, Q. Did Captain Paulo ever whip or pun- 
ish you at any time. 

A. He said that he would whip me when I 
arrived at Ilio de Janeiro if I did not tell the 
English on board of the vessel, that I was free. 

lOth Q. How long did you stay at the facto- 
ry at Inhambane ? 

A. About two months. 

ll//i. Q. When you left tlie factory Vi'hcrc 
were you taken to ? 

A. Was embarked on board the Brig schooner 
^'Americano," and went to Quillimane, with the 
passengers, and to Lourenzo Marquez, and then 
to Imyack, where the slaves were embarked on 
board the "Garafilia." 

I2th Q. Where did you go then, from 
Imyack ? 

A. Came on board of the same vessel to Kio 
de Janeiro. « 

13//i Q. Did Captain Paulo ever tell you that 
you were free ? 

A. He said that I was his slave, but that I 
must tell the English on board of the vessel that 
I was free, or he would whip me when I arrived 
at Ilio de Janeiro. 

14//i Q. Did } ou or did you not expect to be 
a slave to Captain Paulo here in Brazil ? 

A. I expected to be a slave to Captain Pauk- 
in Ilio de Janeiro ? 

\oih Q. Were you ever branded with a hot 
iron as a slave ? If so, wherf,, and by whom ? 

A. Was branded by Manuel Henrique, but 
not by Captain Paulo, nor in the American vessel. 

\(5th Q. Have you any brothers or sisters ? 
If so, how many of each, and what are their names? 

A. I have no brothers or sisters. My broth- 
ers were killed in the war, and my father and 
mother died when I was a little boy. 

lT//i Q. Do you wish to go with Captain 
Paulo again ? 

A. No. Not willingly. 

18//j Q. Where do you wish to go? 

A. I would like to go back to Africa, but am 
afraid I should be made a slave another time, 
and I very much desire, in this very vessel, to go 
to the United States. 

Then Guilherme made solemn declaration that 
what he had said as aforesaid was true. 
Attest, 

John Henry Kagei., 
Sworn Public Translator at the 
Imperial Court of Brazil and In- 
terpreter of the Nation. 




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For the benefit of thoee fastidious gentlemen who have made sundry frivolous ob- 
jections to our candidate for Governor, George William Gordon, Esq., the Committee 
have been at the pains to procure the following endorsement of his worth and char- 
acter from the Department at Washington, and we commend it to the earnest atten- 
tion of our readers, Whigs, as well as Americans : — 

To the President of the United States : 

The undersigned, Citizens of Boston, respectfully recommend Mr. George William 
Gordon for the office oi Postmaster of this city. Mr. Gordon is a Merchant of in- 
tegrity ; a gentleman of unblemished reputation, and of acknowledged public and 
private moral worth. Such is the estimation in which he is held by his friends and 
neighbors, that we have good reason to believe he will have no competitor, who will 
30 generally command the approval of the community. 



Boston, Feb. 1&41, 
ilenry B Stone, President Suffolk Bank, 
.1 C Brewer, Cashier " " 

Titus Wells, President Eagle " 

Waldo Flint, Cashier " " 

Kliph. Williams, Cashier City " 

?^ain'l W. Swett, President National Ins. Co. 
Caleh Curtis, Presi'ient Nepume Ins. Office, 
.losepli H. Gardener, Sec'y Neptune " " 
Francis Welch, President Fi-anklin " " 
William M Byrnes, Sec'y ■• " " 

X Parsons, President Hope " " 

Xath'l ilerriam, Pres't Mer. Marine " " 
James Hall, Pres't X. E. Marine, " " 
John Waters, Sec'y " " 

Joseph White, Cashier Atlas Bank, " " 
Thomas Lamb, Pres't Washiniiton Insurance Co. 
PeUiam W Hayward. Pres't Suffolk, •' 
John G Xazro, Pres't Tremont " " 

George Hale. Secy. • " " 

KobertB Williams, Pres't U. States " " 

Levi Ingols, Sec'y •• " '•' 

Josei hH Addams, Pres't Ocean " '• 

Aaron F Bean. Sec'y National " " 

T Watts. Pres't Atlantic " " 

Kob't Farley, Sec'y " "' 

Moses L Hale. Sec'y Mass. Hospital Life Ins " 
Au;;ustus Lovett, Sec'y Hope Insurance Co. 
Win B Coffin. Sec'y of M. M, " 

.Tohn G Torrey, President Columbian Bank. 
Wm Coffin, Cashier 

Joseph Tilden. Actuary Mass. Hos. Life Ins. Co. 
Pliny Cutler, President Atlantic Bank. 
Benj Dodd, Cashier '• " 

.(ames Dalton, Cashier Ti-emont " 
James C WiUl, Cashier Boston " 

John L Dimmock, Pres't. Warren Ins. Co. 
Alfred Wheelwright. Sec'v " " " 

K Baldwin, Pres't Shoe & Leather Dealers Bank. 
»Eiioch Plummer, Cashier " " " 

Alvan Simmonds, Cashier Mechanics " 

Lemuel Pope, President Boston Insurance Co. 
Wra Parsons, •' Massachusetts Bank. 

•I H Lunt, Sec'y Suffolk Insurance Co. 
Isaac Sweetser, Sec'y Washington Ins. Co. 
J Clark, Pres't Equit. Safe y Fire & Mar. In. Co. 
C Bradbury. Pres't Columbian Ins. Co. 
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Thomas Drown, Cashier " •' 
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Andrew Drake, President Freemans Bank. 
Jeremy Drake, Cashier 
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1' W Freeman, Sec'y Boston Ins. Co. 
Daniel Denney, Pres't Hamilton Bank. 
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Sam'l H Walley, Jr., Treas. Savings Bank for 

Seamen. 
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M.arine Ins. Co. • 

Edwin P Merriara. Sec'y Col. Ins. Co. 
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Sleeper, Dix & Rogers 
Jewett & Presoott 
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Saxson k Pierce 



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G & N Sturtevant & co 
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Wm Boyuton 
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S J R. gers, 



CO 

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Crocker .& Brewster 
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A S Jordan 
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Gould, Kendall & Lin- Jones, Lowe & 



coin 
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Ball 
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'J'homas Gmom 

J H Wilkins iS R B Car- 
ter 



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LBuilar. 
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T H Car'er 
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G N Thompson 
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f'l.ni-les B Dennett 
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.loiiu B Welles 
leaac Harris 
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Beza Line -In 
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Brailbury .V Soilea 
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Z B Adams 
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VS .lair 
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ZiBeon rsouthard 
R M V'P' land 
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JoA Foster 
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A A Wellington 
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Willidm H Barnes 
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Lorenzo Prouty 
Au'-iustus Ij Hoore 
N-h'iuiah N'dson 
William Adams 
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John II Pray 
David Kimball 
Moses Phelps 



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Rtdjert F Keith 
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Seih AV Fowle 
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S T Brown 
OliYer Fernald 
Nathan J jMley 
Daniel L Gibbens, Vice 

Prcs Whiu Repub Ass 
Ctiarles Leighton do 
W N Fisher, Director do 
Kimball Gibson 
J Vincent Browne do 
CH Parker, Vice Pres do 
J G R< bcrts, Director do 
T M Brewer do 
Theodore Washburn do 
WMUiam A Weeks do 
Ephraim Marsh 
Samuel Grapg 
N A Thompson Sec'y do 
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'J'homas J Shelt"n 
E Iword l^ Merriam 
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J M Thompson 
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Raym' nd Cole 
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E BrigKS 
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Frederick W TracyJ 
J B Palmer 
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Turner Merritt 
M Holden Wetherbee 
Gen E Bent, Director of 

Wliig Repub Assnc'ii 
William VV Parrott 
William W Ro^s 
William T Waldo 
1 imothv Fletcher ' 
Job Taber 
Peter B Brigham 
W B Peai.ody Register 

of Probate 
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D H Haskell 
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William Bettes 
John I Spear 
George S Winslow 
L Cormerais 
Joseph L Bates 
J S e>rown 
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JohnDall, 
Lewis Wentworth 
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G M Thatcher 
.lames Su ele 
C L Blake 
Ira P Rankin 
Ezra Lincoln 
David Homer 
Joseph Wing 
John Ba'l 
James M Beebe 
James B B»-ll 
Benjamin Tilton 
Nahuin Dunbar 
W A Aiken 



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«>3,muel Leach 
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Sidney Fisher 
■fhos -t' Chase 
Moses C Orfint 
•azv/yer S Stone 
.Garmi E King 
Francis Adams 
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Edward S Bocd 
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^iTanassah Knight 
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.viiibert Browneil 
James Thurston 
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P S Rowland 
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isaiah Faxon 
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3iraon Pearson 
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yeorge Lincoln 
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Martin L Whitcher 
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Billings Briggs 
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Edward Emerson 
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James Adams 
Henry Potter 
K B Rix 
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Y JJ Ball 

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Charles BTourse 
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Joseph H Moses 
Martin Baker 
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Wm Lang 
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Wm B Brooks 
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C E Stratton 
Thomas Blasland 
J^,ojjIj Hej-ripJi 



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^7;,A-». 



MR.:GORDON AND^THE BEDINI AFFAIR. 



Immediately on the nomination of Mr. Gordon for the office of Governor of Massa- 
cliusetts, an attack was made upon him by the opposition press, based upon the 
fact of his having entertained Mons. Bedini at his house, at the time of his visit to 
Boston. It is due to Mr, Gordon that the public should be made acquainted with 
the real circumstances of the case. 

While Mr. Gordon was Consul of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, a few year* 
since, it chanced that Bedini was his next door neighbor, and, as a matter of course,, 
an acquaintance sprang up between them. M. Bedini visited the house of Mr. Gor- 
don, became acquainted with his family, and extended to him many civilities due tc 
the rank he held as the representative of the greatest nation on the earth. 

The consequence of this was, that when Bedini visited this country, he sought out 
Mr. Gordon and his family, and was by them invited to pass an evening at their house 
as an act, merely, of reciprocity. This was the sum total of all the hospitalities ex- 
tended to Bedini by Mr. Gordon during his visit to this city, and no man, who is a 
gentleman, will say that this act could have been decently withheld. It was, in fact, 
"what any other American would have done, under similar circumstances, and Mr. 
Gordon would have laid himself open to public censure, had he done otherwise. 

We nov/- appeal to every American to rally to the support of Mr, Gordon, as a 
pure, staunch and consistent American ; one who has proved himself such by ail the 
acts of his political life for years past. As for the proof of his attachment to the 
principles of our party, we invite the careful and candid perusal of his trolly 
patriotic and American letter of acceptance which shows^that he is willing to be kno.wi:. 
.and recognized as a supporter and defender of ©urprinsiples. 



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